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Plant and Cell Physiology, 1995, Vol. 36, No. 5 891-895
© 1995

Reorientation of Cortical Microtubules in the Sub-Apical Region during Tuberization in Single-Node Stem Segments of Potato in Culture

Kaien Fujino, Yasunori Koda and Yoshio Kikuta

Department of Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University Sapporo, 060 Japan

The initial events in tuberization were examined in single-node stem segments of potato, in which the tuberization was easily regulated in culture. The addition of 8% sucrose to the culture medium caused the cessation of elongation of lateral shoots and the swelling of the sub-apical region of each shoot. Swelling was first induced by lateral cell expansion, which was followed by periclinal cell division. The divided cells then expanded laterally. The alteration in the direction of growth was accompanied by the reorientation of arrays of cortical microtubules (MTs), which was monitored by immunofluorescence microscopy. Cells in the sub-apical region of elongating shoots had prominent transverse arrays of MTs. The MTs in swelling cells were oriented longitudinally with respect to the axis of the shoot. Finally, the arrays of MTs became completely disorganized. By contrast, the elongation of lateral shoots continued in GA3-treated segments and the cells in the sub-apical region of such shoots retained conspicuous transverse arrays of MTs during culture, even in the presence of a high concentration (8%) of sucrose.

(Received July 2, 1994; Accepted May 19, 1995)
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